The Storm is here
June 7th, 2026
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Carole Hulslander
Mark 4:35-41
Now on that same day in the evening, He says to them, “Let’s cross over to the other side.” After leaving the crowd, they take Him along in the boat, just as He was. And other boats were with Him.
A great windstorm arises, and the waves were rushing into the boat. The boat was beginning to fill up. But Yeshua was in the back of the boat, sleeping on a pillow. They wake Him up and say to Him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are perishing?”
So He woke up and rebuked the wind. And He said to the sea, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind stopped, and it became totally calm. And He said to them, “Why are you afraid? Even now you have no faith?”
They were struck with awe and said to one another, “Who is this? Even the wind and the sea obey Him!”
Acts 4:8-13
Then Peter, filled with the Ruach ha-Kodesh, said to them, “Rulers and elders of the people! If we are on trial today for a mitzvah done for a sick man, as to how this fellow was healed, let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Yeshua ha-Mashiach ha-Natzrati—whom you had crucified, whom God raised from the dead—this one stands before you whole. This Yeshua is ‘the stone—rejected by you, the builders—that has become the chief cornerstone.’ There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved!”
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and figured out they were laymen without training, they were amazed. They began to realize that these men had been with Yeshua.
1 John 4:13-17
We know that we abide in Him and He in us by this—because He has given us of His Spirit. We have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son as Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Yeshua is Ben-Elohim, God abides in him and he abides in God. So we have come to know and trust in the love that God has for us. God is love. Now whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
In this way, love is made perfect among us, so that we should have boldness on the Day of Judgment. For just as He is, so also are we in this world.
John 16:33
These things I have spoken to you, so that in ME you may have shalom. In the world, you will have trouble, but take heart! I have overcome the world!
Psalms 107
Praise Adonai, for He is good,
for His lovingkindness endures forever.
Let the redeemed of Adonai say so—
whom He redeemed from the hand of the foe,
whom He gathered out of the lands,
from the east and from the west,
from the north and from the sea.
Some wandered in a desert, a wasteland.
They found no way to an inhabited city.
Hungry and thirsty,
their souls ebbed away.
So they cried out to Adonai in their distress,
and He delivered them out of their troubles.
Then He led them by a straight way
to go to a city where they could live.
Let them praise Adonai for His mercy
and His wonders for the children of men,
for He satisfies the thirsty soul
and fills the hungry soul with goodness.
Some sat in darkness and deep gloom,
prisoners in misery and iron chains,
for they had defied God’s words,
and spurned the counsel of Elyon.
So He humbled their heart with trouble.
They stumbled, and no one was helping.
So they cried out to Adonai in their distress,
and He delivered them out of their troubles.
He brought them out of darkness
and deep gloom, breaking their chains.
Let them praise Adonai for His mercy,
and His wonders for the children of men,
for He shattered bronze gates,
and broke into pieces iron bars.
Some became fools because of their rebellious ways,
and were afflicted due to their iniquities.
Their soul abhorred all food,
and they drew near the gates of death.
So they cried out to Adonai in their distress,
and He delivered them out of their troubles.
He sent His word and healed them,
and rescued them from their pits.
Let them praise Adonai for His mercy,
and His wonders for the children of men.
Let them sacrifice thank offerings
and tell of His works with joyful singing.
Some go out to the sea in ships,
doing business on the mighty waters.
They saw the works of Adonai,
and His wonders in the deep.
For He spoke and raised a stormy wind,
lifting up towering waves.
They mounted up to the sky
and plunged down to the depths.
In their peril their souls melted away.
They reeled and staggered like a drunk,
and all their skill was bewildered.
So they cried out to Adonai in their distress,
and He brought them out of their troubles.
He stilled the storm to a whisper—
the waves were hushed.
They were glad when it became calm,
and He led them to their desired haven.
Let them praise Adonai for His mercy,
and His wonders to the children of men.
Let them exalt Him in the congregation of the people,
and praise Him at the assembly of elders.
He turns rivers into a wilderness
and springs of water into thirsty ground,
and a fruitful land into a salt waste,
because of the evil of its inhabitants.
He turns a desert into a pool of water,
a dry land into springs of water.
There He brings the hungry to live,
and they establish a city for a dwelling.
So they sow fields and plant vineyards
that yield a fruitful harvest.
He blesses them, they multiply greatly,
and He does not let their herds diminish,
after they were few and crushed
by oppression, calamity and sorrow.
He pours contempt on princes,
making them wander in trackless waste.
But He lifts the needy high above affliction,
and makes their families like a flock.
The upright see it and are glad,
and all iniquity shuts its mouth.
Who is wise?
Let him observe these things,
and consider Adonai’s lovingkindness.